The World This Week - Friday, April 8th

50 years after African independence, Europe’s colonial past makes headlines in The World This Week. François Picard’s panel argues over the long-term consequences of French intervention in Ivory Coast and whether it’s right to charge the current UK government for atrocities committed in the 1950s during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion.

Alison SMALE, Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune.

Kate DOURIAN, Middle East Editor, Platt’s

Mamadou DIOUF, Professor at Columbia University, head of the Institute of African Studies